The bird flu outbreak that's spread to 15 different states and has been detected at 223 farms across the country has shone a light on problems with lax biosecurity within the poultry industry, according to the CEO of a free-range egg producer in Wisconsin.

Dylann Roof has confessed to authorities that he is responsible for shooting and killing nine members of a prayer meeting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on Wednesday night. According to investigators, he told them that he intended to start a race war. It became apparent Thursday...

From Canada thistle to Kentucky bluegrass to Reed canary grass, weeds love to take over any area it can, but it can especially be a problem in prairies. Neil Diboll, president of Prairie Nursery in Westfield, said that it’s important to control weeds when starting a prairie. "A prairie is...

More than 60 environmental and tribal groups have signed a letter to President Barack Obama criticizing an oil pipeline expansion at the U.S.-Canada border. The letter, sent Thursday, calls for Enbridge Energy's proposed Line 67 expansion to be held to the same review process as the controversial Keystone XL project...

About 200 people attended a vigil in Milwaukee Thursday night for the nine people killed the day before in an African-American church in South Carolina. Among those at the vigil at Milwaukee's All People's church was youth director Xavier Thomas. He said the killings of nine fellow African-Americans in Charleston...

The cities of Superior and La Crosse will commemorate black people's freedom from slavery Saturday by hosting their first-ever Juneteenth celebrations. The annual holiday marks the anniversary of the day that the final slaves were liberated in Galveston, Texas in 1865.

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal for a new basketball arena in Milwaukee has become something of a jump ball: Milwaukee land developers want state lawmakers to tip the package forward, but others want to bat it back or introduce new conditions to the deal.

Republican legislative leaders said Thursday that Sen. Alberta Darling, a co-chair of the budget committee, made "false statements" when she told WisPolitics that Assembly Republicans are trying to pressure lawmakers in the Senate to go along with a gas tax or vehicle registration fee increase.

A young white man opened fire on a prayer group Wednesday night at the historical black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. He sat with the group for almost an hour before drawing his gun and killing nine people. A witness quoted the man as saying “I...

In a 184-page letter, Pope Francis weighed in on climate change today, saying humans have a moral obligation to do something about it. A professor of theology discusses the Pope's call-to-action, and how it could go over with the world's Catholics.